Jeff wrote: jamesf99 wrote:
A 3D? Not gonna happen....
I\'m puzzled as to why, of all times, people are still throwing this around? For all intents and purposes the 7D is the 3D we\'ve been waiting for, except for the significant omission of not being FF.
It seems to me that the 7D has practically ensured that the next full frame camera that isn\'t a 1-Series will be the 3D, whatever it\'s called. Assuming the longest possible timeline, the 5DIII will need to have the features of the 7D, and will thus be the mini-me full frame counterpart to the 1-Series, the mythical 3D. At least, if it has the elusive dedicated MLU button that is an apparent requirement of such a camera...
I think the logic behind the \"7d is not the/a 3d\" is pretty sound. The 7d is a cropped sensor while the 5 series is a FF. The cropped 1D series is somewhat of an anomaly, oddball, or fish out of water, technically..
I\'m sure the APS-H sensor will be retired, I just don\'t know when. Production efficiencies aside, a line dedicated to H sensors doesn\'t make a lot of sense when your primary business comes from FF or 1.6x.
An interesting point though, and somewhat obscure, is that Canon introduced their newest AF (45-point) on the EOS 3. It didn\'t make it to the 1 series for another year + when it showed up on the 1V. I\'m certainly not suggesting that Canon is going to change the 1 series to a 19 point version, but I wonder if the 7d is a test vehicle as the EOS 3 was previously (albeit with diminished capacity this time).
Sep 02, 2009 at 08:02 AM
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